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Shevardnadze Says Reports on Phone Call After 11/9 Attacks Exaggerated

(Tbilisi, September 5, 2002, Civil Georgia) – President Shevardnadze called the reports on possible Georgia’s trace in 11/9 terrorist attacks exaggerated.

CBS News reported on September 4 that “at 9:53 a.m., just 15 minutes after the hijacked plane had hit the Pentagon, the National Security Agency, which monitors communications worldwide, intercepted a phone call from one of Osama bin Laden’s operatives in Afghanistan to a phone number in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia”. According to the CBS News the caller said he had “heard good news.”

“One should not believe in everything,” Georgian President told the reporters today concerning the report.

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